Designing is a creative process in which a designer creates a piece of work with his unique
approach of thoughts and with the help of designing tools available for him. A designer
never leaves any factor unconsidered while creating UI or any design he is up to. But even after that sometimes we left many important factors untouched.
In fact, when someone tries to assist us on those untouched factors we start defending our work. I mean
it is a good thing that we should always defend our work and should have the best explanation for our
design. But, we should also consider everyone’s views because ultimately we are making
a product for them. Designer are humans too, they also make mistakes. It is not always
easy to accept their view, however, we should accept them in order to be more better than before.
Here are some ways in which critics can be very helpful:
1) Listening to Feedback:
Feedback is a very important part in the design process.
It can take your design in a right direction or in a wrong direction. But, unless you don’t listen
to them you won’t reach anywhere. Instead, you should always try to improve your creative
approach to work and this can be done by listening to others feedback about your design. It can make you more accurate with the design.
2) Understanding the UX:
Understanding your user’s problems and expectations is one of the most
important parts of designing. And the process of this understanding can only be achieved through
listening to the critiques suggestion and thoughts about your design.
3) Be curious to listen to any audience:
Every designer has their own way of designing, same as every user have its own problems and expectations with products. The designing process does not end with completing and launching the product in the market.
Between the updates, a designer should have the capability to listen to others more than
defending his own work. A great suggestion can come from anyone so a designer should
focus on every user’s thoughts. This will definitely help them in their own growth as well as
it will be good for the product.
To conclude, a designer should always keep his mind more opened to criticism rather than
defending his work.
